Lamentations 5:8

8 Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hand.

Lamentations 5:8 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 5:8

Servants have ruled over us
The Targum is,

``the sons of Ham, who were given to be servants to the sons of Shem, they have ruled over us;''
referring to the prophecy of Noah, ( Genesis 9:26 Genesis 9:27 ) ; or such as had been tributary to the Jews, as the Edomites; so Aben Ezra; the Babylon, an, are meant; and not the nobles and principal inhabitants only, but even their servants, had power and authority over the Jews and they were at their beck and command; which made their servitude the more disagreeable and intolerable: [there is] none that doth deliver [us] out of their hand;
out of the hand of these servants.

Lamentations 5:8 In-Context

6 We have made a deal with Egypt [and] Assyria to be satisfied [with] food.
7 Our fathers have sinned, they are no more; we bear their iniquity.
8 Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hand.
9 {We risk our life for food} because of the sword of the desert.
10 Our skin is hot like an oven because of the scorching famine.
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